The trial of a former deputy superintendent at a care home, who was accused of 13 historic counts of sexual activity with young boys, has been halted.

Judge Rhys Rowlands discharged the jury and stopped proceedings on the second day of the trial of Huw Meurig Jones, 69, of Penybryn, Old Colwyn.

He had denied four counts of indecent assault and four counts of gross indecency against a 13 year-old boy in a Wrexham care home in the 1970s.

He had also denied three charges of indecent assault and two of a serious sexual assault against another boy, who was aged 14 or 15 years old at the time of the alleged offences, in Colwyn Bay during the 1970s.

Huw Meurig Jones (Image: Andrew Price/View Finder Pictures)

Judge Rowlands placed Jones on bail until October 3 this year, when an “effective retrial” will take place at Mold Crown Court.

The accused was deputy superintendent of Little Acton Assessment Centre in Wrexham in the 1970s.

The charges were brought after investigations by historic sex abuse investigation Operation Pallial in 2015.